Pulseaudio No sound

Vrekk · 2011-04-10 16:13:48

I recetnly did a fresh install of archlinux on my Desktop and I can not for the life of me figure out why I'm not getting sound with pluseaudio.

I have an intel HDA sound card

[brett@TARDIS ~]$ lspci  | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller

If I need to give the out put of anything else please let me know,
thanks

EDIT: If I try to start it manually

[brett@TARDIS ~]$ start-pulseaudio-x11
E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.

Last edited by Vrekk (2011-04-10 16:26:36)

Crimsonknave · 2011-04-18 21:00:29

Try and start it with start-pulseaudio-x11 -v (for verbose) and see if that gives you any more information. Then I'd look in /var/log/messages or /var/log/everything.log to see if there are any pulse related messages there.

infestator · 2011-06-08 06:53:13

I have the same problem with my Intel HDA card and pulseaudio.
Pulseaudio starts ok, but no sound. Sometimes if I switch audiodevices it works. My speakers are plugged using SPDI/F (coaxial), so when I switch to Digital Stereo Duplex it may work.
Sound card is not muted, I checked it using alsamixer. No info in logs.

ChoK · 2011-06-08 13:10:41

Can you try without pulseaudio with only alsa :
check that sound is not muted in alsamixer
try to read a .wav with aplay.

If it fails post the error, if it seems to work but you hear no sound (and volume is no muted) try creating a file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf and add "options snd-hda-intel model=auto" inside. The model may need to be changed.

Look in the wiki for information https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … chitecture

infestator · 2011-06-09 07:53:14

HI ChoK,

I have read that article before posting here. No solution :(
I think that it was problems with intel hda sound kernel module because after yesterday's kernel update the issue was resolved.

xanax · 2011-06-17 10:22:15

I have similar problems! Although my PulseAudio starts properly, no sound sinked through PA will play. ALSA on the other hand works, given that PA is not the standard sound daemon. Really lost on this one.

ChoK · 2011-06-17 12:43:24

Probably, the soundcard is reserved by another application before pulse can take it over.

Can you type in a console
lsof | grep snd

This will list the applications using /dev/snd

infestator · 2011-06-17 13:29:03

Chok, it's a good idea, thanks
I would try it when such problem will occur

infestator · 2011-06-25 11:02:47

no results.
all processes which are listed:

[infestator@station ~]$ sudo lsof | grep snd
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/infestator/.gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.
gnome-ter  5338       infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gnome-ter  5338  5340 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gnome-ter  5338  5341 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gnome-ter  5338  5346 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
threaded-  5338  5436 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gnome-set  5397       infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gnome-set  5397  5417 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gnome-set  5397  5418 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gnome-she  5424       infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gnome-she  5424  5428 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gnome-she  5424  5429 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
threaded-  5424  5437 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gnome-she  5424  5438 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
threaded-  5424  5456 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gnome-she  5424  6888 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
pulseaudi  5427       infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
alsa-sink  5427  5432 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gconf-hel  5433       infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24
gconf-hel  5433  5434 infestator  mem       REG        8,5   397016     165378 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.24

tried to kill all with

sudo lsof | grep snd | awk '{system("sudo kill "$2)}'

. did not help.

i also tried to kill all processes, shutdown most servces, and play audio from console. does not help.

tried to the same with 'grep sound'. it happens just on my PC with

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)

soundcard. on laptop/netbook (there are also snd-hda-intel cards inside but with other chipsets) everything works fine.

the only thing which helps is killing all processes which uses snd-hda-intel module removing module and loading it again.

does anyone have an idea?

Last edited by infestator (2011-06-25 14:28:31)

developej · 2011-10-04 07:36:13

Same problem. I installed Arch on a laptop, installed gnome with GDM and now I don't have sound. (Just after the installation of Arch, before isntalling gnome and GDM I was able to enter alsamixer, now I can't).

start-pulseaudio-x11
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
(same result with pulseaudio --start)

pulseaudio --kill
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such file or directory

I searched around quite a bit, nothing helped. Deleting ~/.pulse did nothing.
I have a speaker icon on my laptop keyboard and it's showing the sound is off since arch boots.
Also, pavucontrol says 'connection to Pulseaudio failed'.

Updatet: if I look into /etc/xdg/autostart/ I can find this:

...
pulseaudio.desktop
pulseaudio-kde.desktop (I have GNOME, not kde?!)

and if I open pulseaudio-kde.desktop it says:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=PulseAudio Sound System KDE Routing Policy
Comment=Start the PulseAudio Sound System with KDE Routing Policy
Exec=start-pulseaudio-kde
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
GenericName=
OnlyShowIn=KDE;

Last edited by developej (2011-10-04 07:50:19)

Loose_Control · 2011-10-04 10:08:18

try commenting the lines for jack
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127480 maybe it's the same bug...

Last edited by Loose_Control (2011-10-04 10:08:37)

developej · 2011-10-04 10:23:28

That worked, thank you.
I even looked at that particular topic and saw the post you were refering to, but I was like 'no, that can't be it, it's totally unrelated'

tlawren · 2011-10-04 11:46:18

Could this be a version problem or a bug? I experienced similar, if not the same, problems Vrekk and developej describe above after I updated pulseaudio from 0.9 to 1.0 the other day. I simply downgraded for a quick fix and I haven't explored the jack issue, but I plan on looking into it later. It looks like other people are experiencing similar issues too, because there are a couple of other posts on the Arch Forums about pulseaudio issues.

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#1 2011-04-10 16:13:48

Pulseaudio No sound

#2 2011-04-18 21:00:29

Re: Pulseaudio No sound

#3 2011-06-08 06:53:13

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#4 2011-06-08 13:10:41

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#5 2011-06-09 07:53:14

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#6 2011-06-17 10:22:15

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